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Associate Professor Helen Caple

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Linguistics, Discourse and pragmatics, Applied linguistics and educational linguistics, Communication and media studies, Journalism studies
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My research interests include discursive news values analysis (DNVA), text-image relations, multimodality, visual storytelling and the role of picture galleries in online news reporting.
Dr Sumiko Iida

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Japanese language, Asian cultural studies, Language studies, Discourse and pragmatics

Born in Kyoto, Japan.  BEd Osaka University of Education, MA in Linguistics, Graduate Diploma in HIgher Education, PhD in Linguistics, UNSW.
Ms Giselle May Newton

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Sociology, Sociology of family and relationships, Digital health, Culture, representation and identity, Discourse and pragmatics, Communication and media studies

Giselle Newton (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney.
Associate Professor Michele Zappavigna

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Discourse and pragmatics, Communication and media studies, Corpus linguistics
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As a linguist, my primary focus is on exploring the discourse of social media, in terms of linguistic, paralinguistic, and multimodal patterns. 

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